A unique and distinctive culture emerges from the Burning Man experience. Rooted in the values expressed by the Ten Principles, this culture is manifested around the globe through art, communal effort, and innumerable individual acts of self-expression. To many, it is a way of life.

You canâ€™t throw a grenade without taking out half a dozen DJs. Every flavor of electronica you can imagine is represented along with rock, live jazz, Blues, classical, Big band, folk, drum circles and sounds no one can identify.

Feel free to sing at the top of your lungs if you wish,... just donâ€™t do it by my tent Mâ€™kay,.....

Are some of the bigger DJ names confirmed already? I'm an Amsterdam / Utrecht (The Netherlands) based Minimal Techno DJ and ALSO hope to play at Burning Man, but besides that I want to party at Techno Raves and see some professional international DJ's...

[quote="Uncle Tom"]Anyone out there going to be playing either hard or minimal techno as I would love to have the chance to hear you play[/quote]

try to find out more about "wolf and lamb" they have brought out minimal techno to the playa a couple of times now. dont know if they will be back this year though.

as for hard techno - what? ala BEN SIMS, perhaps??- you will NOT find any quality techno on the playa, most camps have commercial dj's ala carl cox, tiesto, oakenfold, or unknown names who play those former mentioned styles and playlists, and the like. especially the bigger camps seem based on commercial clubs like pacha, crowbar and such. for some reason, "big" in america always means "commercial appeal", and "commercial appeal" in turn means 99 out of 100 times "loss of quality and experimentation". it is very sad that a community so creative as most burners are has not very much taste for the exploration of underground beats.